James Romberger is an American artist and cartoonist known for his depictions of New York’s Lower East Side.
Romberger’s pastel drawings of the ravaged landscape of the Lower East Side and its citizens are in many public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum in New York City.

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Marguerite and I are guests at the 2016 Flame Con, tabling and doing a panel mostly about 7 Miles a Second:Flame Con 2016Sat. August 20th 12pm – 8pm | Sun. August 21st 11am – 5pm
New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge
333 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USAhttp://www.flamecon.org/

Talking 7 Miles a Second
Saturday, 6:00, room C
Pushing the limits of mainstream publishing, comics partners James Romberger and Marguerite Van Cook have created several groundbreaking, queer-positive stories ranging from AIDS memoirs to wartime romances. Join us for a talk with James and Marguerite about their work and their lives.
James Romberger: 7 Miles a Second, Aaron & Ahmed, 2020 Visions
Marguerite Van Cook: 7 Miles a Second, The Late Child and Other Animals
Maggie Galvan (moderator): Archiving the ’80s: Feminism, Queer Theory & Visual Culture

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I contributed to the wonderful online Think of a City project, initiated by Alison Sampson RIBA and Ian MacEwan—my drawing incorporates some aspects of Philip K. Dick’s Valis, as well as a shantytown I saw last year in Marseille: http://thinkofacity.tumblr.com/

I’ve drawn an illustration for Bob Levin’s upcoming The Schiz, a pitch-black comedy about where the four corners of the Law, Medicine, Art and Psychosis meet in ’80s San Francisco. Spruce Hills Books: http://www.theboblevin.com/tag/the-schiz/